Dear OpsMgr Users,
Highly anticipated Office 365 has been released. This blog explains how you can use Operations Manager to seamlessly integrate monitoring of the Office 365 functionality into your enterprise management. Please note that in order...

I just wanted to let you know about a new Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one talks about an issue where the Virtual Machine Manager Service can crash with VMs running Linux Integration Components v3.1 for Hyper-V: ===== Symptoms...

Hi everyone, we recently came across an issue with RTSPS streaming in Microsoft App-V and while it’s a fairly obscure issue that you’ll likely never encounter, we wanted to make you aware of it just in case. This one happened to come up when a customer...

Hi everyone The Community Evaluation Program (CEP) for Operations Manager 2012 Beta will be kicking off very soon! The CEP is designed to guide our customers and partners through an evaluation of the product and highlight key features and capabilities...

Today, the MSRC released its third annual progress repor t highlighting advancements of key Microsoft programs designed to help prevent and defend against online threats. The Microsoft programs featured in this paper include the following:
The Microsoft...

Protecting the general computing ecosystem is a really tough job, and given some of the media headlines, it’s easy to get discouraged and wallow in the problems. It seems like we’re constantly bombarded with statistics measuring the number...

[Today's post is from the Configuration Manager Writing Team ]
The Configuration Manager 2007 documentation library and the Configuration Manager 2012 documentation library have been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: July1, 2011...

This hotfix package resolves the following issues: You run the Application Virtualization Client on a computer that is running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. When you try to start a virtualized application from a network location, such as a UNC path...

[Today's post comes from Harini Muralidharan]
We are announcing support changes for the following releases. Please look for these changes to be reflected in the Supported Configuration pages within a few months.
Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard...

Just in case you missed the original announcement , last week we published an updated version of WSUS 3.0 Service Pack 2 documentation with some changes that were included to reflect customer’s feedback about the product and documentation. The changes...

In this video, Richard and Paul talk about the Software Distribution feature in Windows Intune. They describe how to create software packages, tips and tricks for creating them, uploading them, and then how to distribute them to your PCs. The video is...

Here’s a heads up on a nice article I found over on the TechNet Wiki today. This is another one written by MVP Kristian Nese and it talks about load balancing and cloud computing in relation to SCVMM 2012: One characteristic of cloud computing is virtualized...

I know this is a little bit off topic but I thought many of you would be interesting in knowing that the next version of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit—version 6.0— is now available for free download . Planning your journey to the...

I just wanted to let you know about a new Knowledge Base article we published today. You’ll definitely want to bookmark this one as it tells you how to troubleshoot a couple of the more common issues we see when adding a Hyper-V host in SCVMM 2008 or...

Hi everyone, Vikram Sahay here and I’m back again with another interesting topic on System Center Operations Manager 2007. Hope you find it useful. Recently we were working on an issue where we were getting an alert from few of the SQL servers as...

Hi everyone, Steve Thomas here. If you are using MED-V version 2.0, you are also using RDP 7.0 and the RemoteApps feature for application publishing. Both MED-V and XP Mode rely on this technology for guest application publishing to the host...

If you’ve been waiting for your chance to try out the next version of OpsMgr then today is your day as we just announced that the System Center Operations Manager 2012 was now available for download: System Center Operations Manager 2012 provides the...

Like most companies today, you rely on your IT infrastructure to keep your business running. You need to find out about and fix IT problems before they lead to any downtime or loss of productivity and revenue. This becomes even more challenging when you...

Here’s another great article I found while I was checking out what was new over on the TechNet Wiki this morning. This one was written by Jan Varšavský and shows you how to monitor GPO changes using OpsMgr 2007 and PowerShell: Monitoring GPO changes is...

If you have just started using the Windows Intune July 2011 Beta service and are looking for some help and support with it, you have come to the right place. This post describes a variety of ways for you to get help and support on Windows Intune related...

I just wanted to let you know about a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where apps virtualized with Microsoft Application Virtualization and published via ConfigMgr 2007 may fail with a 00000005 error: =====...

Hello, Today we published the July Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page . We fielded thirteen questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released, deployment tools, and update detection tools. There were two...

Hi everyone
At WPC this week we showed off System Center App Controller for the first time. You can view the keynote that Sataya delivered here which included Ryan doing the App Controller demo.
To give you a further glimpse into App Controller...

Here a short video we put together for you that walks through the sign-up process for enrolling in the new Windows Intune beta, and your first steps once you’ve got your beta account set up. Enjoy! Thanks to our friend Karthik, senior program...